Online
Before the Internet: Early Pioneers Tell Their Stories,
Part 2Includes special web-only supplements
Continuing their interview with online pioneers
Carlos Cuadra, Roger Summit, and Dick Kollin, Stephanie
Ardito and Susanne Bjørner focus on how the
addition of databases, the use of marketing, the
involvement of commercial and government enterprises,
and some friendly  and not so friendly 
competition helped to grow the industry.

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COLUMNS

Searcher's
Voice
bq looks at what's in a name (change) and how professional searchers
must define themselves before others can see their value and importance.

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The Better Mousetrap
Matthew McBride sets the Wayback Machine to 1902 to trace the history of
what is now INSPEC, the high-quality scientific database from the Institution
of Electrical Engineers (IEE).

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Behind
the Screen
In a corollary that would make ESPN's Chris Berman proud, Rich Wiggins
explains the use of Google ranking by looking at how college bowl match-ups
are determined and the University of Michigan's undergrad admissions criteria.

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The Sidebar
Are you ready to commit hari-kari over spam e-mails, not to mention unwanted
and unceasing faxes, phone calls, and snail-mail? Well, you are going
to want to have a highlighter handy while reading Carol Ebbinghouse's
solution to making all  or at least a lot of  this kind of
junk go away!

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Emmerce
Tara Calishain reminds searchers not to overlook some of the smaller companies
when seeking out reliable and inexpensive content providers.

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Leading Libraries
Doris Helfer profiles ProQuest Digital Dissertations, summarizing this
service that provides over 1.7 million  and growing  doctoral
dissertations and theses online.

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Internet Express
Irene McDermott tells you what you need to know about Marquis Who's Who
on the Web, which contains records from 20 national biographical directories
published by Marquis' Who's Who.

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DEPARTMENTS

Contacts
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the companies, products, and people mentioned in this issue.